Nimble Storage’s Offerings
San Jose, California–based Nimble Storage is one of the faster growing organizations within this data storage space. It was founded in 2008 by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari, alumni from Data Domain and NetApp, with the mission of providing “the most efficient storage platform”.

It is not only larger organizations, but smaller ones as well that are dealing with ever-growing data storage requirements. Nimble’s products are focused on the small and medium organizations. The company provides data storage and backup appliances that help smaller organizations manage data requirements without needing to employ a dedicated IT team and servers. It offers a suite of four appliances that integrate storage, backup, and disaster-recovery solutions within a box. It is able to lower the organization’s equipment cost through a pioneering flash-optimized storage architecture that provides flash-accelerated primary storage performance, instant backup and restoration, application-integrated data protection, and offsite disaster recovery.

Nimble launched its product in 2010 and since then has seen fast-paced growth. It has a customer base of more than 1,750 organizations worldwide, with names like Sacramento City College, Plaxo and the City of Cupertino, to name a few. Since its launch, Nimble has shipped more than 2,000 storage arrays to date. For the last quarter alone, it shipped more than 10 petabytes of hybrid flash storage.

Nimble Storage’s Financials
Nimble does not disclose detailed financial, but earlier this year it revealed that for the year ended January 2013, it was operating at an annual run rate of more than $100 million in bookings. Revenues for the company have grown more than 400% over the year and Nimble Storage is now present in international markets, including Europe, Asia Pacific and Australia.